Re:The Taguchi method in user interface design?
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To be honest, some groups (like the before-mentioned Gnome) have done a real effort to go beyond "kitchen sink" think - but yeah, this could help them even further in that direction.
but in reality, commercial applications will an important part of Linux's future if it ever takes hold on the desktop.
(Assuming you mean non-free/closed.) In what bizarre "reality" is this a fact? Some people think so, sure, but some of us have good reason to believe it'll all be free-as-in-source software (some commercial, some not) from now on.
Even if you think traditional copyright-based non-free software implementations are fine and dandy, where do you get off wanting to restrict what the user can do with the programs she buys? It's like every car would come with four perfectly good seats but you'd have to sign a contract to not have more than one person with a driver's license in the car at the same time, since it "decreases car sales if people give each other rides".
The Taguchi method in user interface design?
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Yeah, yeah, all advertising is bad, spam is bad, commercials are bad (or so I think, YMMV).
But I haven't really thought about the Taguchi method in non-lab settings before I read this article. How about applying it to user interface design? Gnome guys, are you listening?
(Maybe then we would find something better than "tabs" implemented in every single app...)
...you insensitive clods! (To all those that's been saying "emulation is better".)
IMHO, It was smarter to do it this way than try to emulate the genesis on a GBA. The latter might be possible one day, with enough hacking breakthroughs, but this is no less generalizable. They have a perl-based translator which they can improve, much like an emulator often need to be improved the more games it is to support.
There was an urban legend in the mid-eighties regarding the Stockholm subway system (probably other cities as well) that amounted to the same thing - that your journeys would be tracked. It caused many people to avoid having magnetic subway cards (despite that they were purchased anonymously) instead opting for either the more expensive regular tickets, or freeriding.
I'm not saying that the Slashdot system is perfect, but it's an interesting start. There's also things like usenet, wiki (although there dissenting views may be deleted), and mailing lists.
The fact this post will not be modded to a 5, proves my point.
Okay. The fact that your poorly written, totally-out-of-the-blue-MS-propagating (even though I didn't even mention Microsoft!), slashdot-bashing post was not deleted but in fact read and replied to, proves mine.
Once everybody is on the Internet do you figure they will no longer want their garbage taken our or their pensions or defense from terrorists
I figure you don't need the government for those things, but then again your mileage may vary. I'm also one of those who believe that totalitarianism is a breeding ground for terrorism, but then again, that's just my two cents.
or negotiated trade pacts or prisons?
Hey, lack of stuff like the TRIPs treaty is to me the main selling point of anarchy! (Been spending most of today working with swpat at FFII and feeling really frustrated because of TRIPs...) I don't like prisons either.
Look, I didn't really mean to blatantly plug anarchism, people tend to look silly when they do that (except in the eyes of other anarchists), so let's just pretend that I meant that the Internet will be the downfall of the totalitarian aspects of governments, not the entire governmental structures. Yeah...
What I mean is that traditional, one-way, top-down, ad-based media is hell of a lot more of a prison than any two-party pseudodemocratic system ever was, and Internet is part of an alternative to that.
The net has tens of thousands of news sites. You can pick your own. You can follow up the history of what's reported on instantly. You can find out the reality all as part of the one medium.
Right, and the most interesting ones of these are in my opinion the ones that take feedback in, not just serve information out.
If Microsoft decided to rename its Services for Unix product to Linux.NET without getting Mr. Torvald's permission, would that be okay?
Sure, who cares? While trademark law is the one part of "intellectual property" I don't mind (like I do copyright and patents), I'm not really that interested in defending to the death my "right" to not be able to say the word Dewey Decimal System in those contexts.
I think that the Internet is needed to offset the damage done by things like television and large newspapers - the "slave mentality" of only taking information in, never sending anything back.
The reason I love slashdot is that even though the editors fuck up every once in a while (don't we all?) someone else is quick to correct it in the comments. Same goes for wikis, usenet and so on. Everyone can chime in.
Sure, it creates a lot of noise, but it's better than the slick, mindkilling flow that comes out of the television.
That governments encourage the use of the net will be their downfall - they can never control it as well as they can control traditional media sources.
You're not doing anything "better" than you would if you were completely computerless. Your machine is the end of the line? Your machine isn't even on the line! Oooh, so you happen to be one of the people in the infected persons mailbox, 'causing it to send out yet one more of these annoying mails. You're not in any way holding up the spread.
Asteroid scares (along with virii and genetic engineering) are an important part of contemporary mythology, just like radiation in the fifties. Until there are proper anti-asteroid mechanisms in place we need to exaggerate and fret over these percieved threats. It dulls our eyes to the pain of everyday problems and frustrating hierarchic structures. Give the people dreams of threats from space lest they get restless and rise anew.
That depends. I'm using the ppc version of Debian, and the official version of Flash doesn't seem to be available. There are clones, but none of theme can even display McCloud's test image, and I'd wager they won't display the comic neither.
You did however insult Slashdot, painting an imagined picture of slashdot as some kind of homogenous, blindly linux-loving crowd. Slashdot readers do have differing opinions, you know - after all, you're one.
To keep this on topic:
Reasons to use GNU/Linux on a PDA:
No license from Palm.
Uniform system API.
Appeals to geeks or people who already love unix and variants.
Reasons not to use GNU/Linux on a PDA:
Requires 32-bits CPU.
Harsher systems requirements and usage.
So it depends. (And there are more reasons in both categories as well, this is just a start.)
Plan 9 is available for the iPaq - maybe it can be made to run on these as well?
When this (a lot more boring than All your base or DO NOT LEAVE or Ellen Feiss ever was) was being discussed at Gnuheter, someone posted a python script for randomizing the words with that specification intact.
Actually, yeah. If, and only if, you get the same usability for less resources, why shouldn't you run that? I like line editors but I do use a GUI program for drawing (Sodipodi), and I sometimes use Blender and other GUI modellers.
I'm quite puzzled to why Gnome has to be so slooooow on my iBook 500/66.
Sorry to disillusion you, but games requiring more imagination are more immersive, not less.
Maybe the whole experience with a toy requiring more imagination is more "immersive" in some sense (or so you can tell yourself), but just the game/toy itself is less. That's precisely why it requires more imagination (and thus the experience, according to some, more immersive).
For example, I play tabletop roleplaying games. I'll agree with you and say that that experience, with a good group, feels to me a lot more immersive than, say, Freeciv or Quake. But the dice on the table are less "immersive" - they're just tools! The dice won't tell me to kill anyone. There are some games that do, such as Vigilante, but not in such a flashy, precise, immersive way like a modern day video game. Vigilante, for all it's virtues, is just text and art on paper.
(I'm not taking sides on the debate itself - I subscribe to the "what the thinker thinks, the prover proves"-theory, that you could "prove" either of the two viewpoints ("games as harmless" and "games as harmful") to yourself. I'm just annoyed with your know-it-all attitude. In which case "countering" it with some of my own aren't making things better, but hey, it's sunday evening.)
It really appears like it's you who haven't read it.
And how about reading this (which says that the BSD-license is a free software license) and this, which argues for using a copyleft free software license like the GPL rather than a non-copyleft free software license like the BSD license)? (Emphasis mine.)
It's because free software and open source are meant to describe the same thing. The two terms are used by two groups, one who openly values freedom for it's own sake, and another who, well, don't like to speak about it that much.
If you license BSD, you should accept that people may take your code and close it. That's what the truly free software is about.
So... Truly Free Software(TM) is all about closing software? Thanks for the information.
(Don't get me wrong, I like BSD-ish licenses a lot, because they're less hassle than the popular copyleft variants, but I still think it's (ever so slightly) sad when people release non-free versions.)
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To be honest, some groups (like the before-mentioned Gnome) have done a real effort to go beyond "kitchen sink" think - but yeah, this could help them even further in that direction.
Especially the first point is what I'd be most interested in.
(Assuming you mean non-free/closed.)
In what bizarre "reality" is this a fact? Some people think so, sure, but some of us have good reason to believe it'll all be free-as-in-source software (some commercial, some not) from now on.
Even if you think traditional copyright-based non-free software implementations are fine and dandy, where do you get off wanting to restrict what the user can do with the programs she buys? It's like every car would come with four perfectly good seats but you'd have to sign a contract to not have more than one person with a driver's license in the car at the same time, since it "decreases car sales if people give each other rides".
Yeah, yeah, all advertising is bad, spam is bad, commercials are bad (or so I think, YMMV).
But I haven't really thought about the Taguchi method in non-lab settings before I read this article. How about applying it to user interface design? Gnome guys, are you listening?
(Maybe then we would find something better than "tabs" implemented in every single app...)
...you insensitive clods! (To all those that's been saying "emulation is better".)
IMHO, It was smarter to do it this way than try to emulate the genesis on a GBA. The latter might be possible one day, with enough hacking breakthroughs, but this is no less generalizable. They have a perl-based translator which they can improve, much like an emulator often need to be improved the more games it is to support.
There was an urban legend in the mid-eighties regarding the Stockholm subway system (probably other cities as well) that amounted to the same thing - that your journeys would be tracked. It caused many people to avoid having magnetic subway cards (despite that they were purchased anonymously) instead opting for either the more expensive regular tickets, or freeriding.
If you can read swedish, there's an interesting website on freeriders in Sweden.
That's the beauty of unix pipes, though - someone could write a kick-ass replacement for eqn and still keep the rest of the workflow.
But that's not what I'm asking. I'm asking "Do you believe in weird shit?"
Like synchronity, magic, gods, ghosts, butterflies, things like that?
Do you believe that future for humans on this planet is likely to be negative or positive?
Okay. The fact that your poorly written, totally-out-of-the-blue-MS-propagating (even though I didn't even mention Microsoft!), slashdot-bashing post was not deleted but in fact read and replied to, proves mine.
Microsoft owns a network. I don't.
I figure you don't need the government for those things, but then again your mileage may vary. I'm also one of those who believe that totalitarianism is a breeding ground for terrorism, but then again, that's just my two cents.
Hey, lack of stuff like the TRIPs treaty is to me the main selling point of anarchy! (Been spending most of today working with swpat at FFII and feeling really frustrated because of TRIPs...)
I don't like prisons either.
Look, I didn't really mean to blatantly plug anarchism, people tend to look silly when they do that (except in the eyes of other anarchists), so let's just pretend that I meant that the Internet will be the downfall of the totalitarian aspects of governments, not the entire governmental structures. Yeah...
What I mean is that traditional, one-way, top-down, ad-based media is hell of a lot more of a prison than any two-party pseudodemocratic system ever was, and Internet is part of an alternative to that.
That's Huey and Louie.
Right, and the most interesting ones of these are in my opinion the ones that take feedback in, not just serve information out.
Sure, who cares? While trademark law is the one part of "intellectual property" I don't mind (like I do copyright and patents), I'm not really that interested in defending to the death my "right" to not be able to say the word Dewey Decimal System in those contexts.
I think that the Internet is needed to offset the damage done by things like television and large newspapers - the "slave mentality" of only taking information in, never sending anything back.
The reason I love slashdot is that even though the editors fuck up every once in a while (don't we all?) someone else is quick to correct it in the comments. Same goes for wikis, usenet and so on. Everyone can chime in.
Sure, it creates a lot of noise, but it's better than the slick, mindkilling flow that comes out of the television.
That governments encourage the use of the net will be their downfall - they can never control it as well as they can control traditional media sources.
You're not doing anything "better" than you would if you were completely computerless. Your machine is the end of the line? Your machine isn't even on the line! Oooh, so you happen to be one of the people in the infected persons mailbox, 'causing it to send out yet one more of these annoying mails. You're not in any way holding up the spread.
Asteroid scares (along with virii and genetic engineering) are an important part of contemporary mythology, just like radiation in the fifties. Until there are proper anti-asteroid mechanisms in place we need to exaggerate and fret over these percieved threats. It dulls our eyes to the pain of everyday problems and frustrating hierarchic structures. Give the people dreams of threats from space lest they get restless and rise anew.
That depends. I'm using the ppc version of Debian, and the official version of Flash doesn't seem to be available. There are clones, but none of theme can even display McCloud's test image, and I'd wager they won't display the comic neither.
I never said it mattered. (Though it's been done in a rather tiring way.)
Yeah, they constantly whine about slashdot, and don't know how to use the <li>-tag, if you're an example.
To keep this on topic:
Reasons to use GNU/Linux on a PDA:
Reasons not to use GNU/Linux on a PDA:
So it depends. (And there are more reasons in both categories as well, this is just a start.)
Plan 9 is available for the iPaq - maybe it can be made to run on these as well?
When this (a lot more boring than All your base or DO NOT LEAVE or Ellen Feiss ever was) was being discussed at Gnuheter, someone posted a python script for randomizing the words with that specification intact.
I don't think $0.25 is too much for a long comic - but I can't read this new The Right Number because it's in Flash format. Gaaah!
Actually, yeah. If, and only if, you get the same usability for less resources, why shouldn't you run that? I like line editors but I do use a GUI program for drawing (Sodipodi), and I sometimes use Blender and other GUI modellers.
I'm quite puzzled to why Gnome has to be so slooooow on my iBook 500/66.
Maybe the whole experience with a toy requiring more imagination is more "immersive" in some sense (or so you can tell yourself), but just the game/toy itself is less. That's precisely why it requires more imagination (and thus the experience, according to some, more immersive).
For example, I play tabletop roleplaying games. I'll agree with you and say that that experience, with a good group, feels to me a lot more immersive than, say, Freeciv or Quake. But the dice on the table are less "immersive" - they're just tools! The dice won't tell me to kill anyone. There are some games that do, such as Vigilante, but not in such a flashy, precise, immersive way like a modern day video game. Vigilante, for all it's virtues, is just text and art on paper.
(I'm not taking sides on the debate itself - I subscribe to the "what the thinker thinks, the prover proves"-theory, that you could "prove" either of the two viewpoints ("games as harmless" and "games as harmful") to yourself. I'm just annoyed with your know-it-all attitude. In which case "countering" it with some of my own aren't making things better, but hey, it's sunday evening.)
It really appears like it's you who haven't read it.
And how about reading this (which says that the BSD-license is a free software license) and this, which argues for using a copyleft free software license like the GPL rather than a non-copyleft free software license like the BSD license)? (Emphasis mine.)
And how come that both the GPL and the BSD license is on the OSI's list of approved licenses?
It's because free software and open source are meant to describe the same thing. The two terms are used by two groups, one who openly values freedom for it's own sake, and another who, well, don't like to speak about it that much.
So... Truly Free Software(TM) is all about closing software? Thanks for the information.
(Don't get me wrong, I like BSD-ish licenses a lot, because they're less hassle than the popular copyleft variants, but I still think it's (ever so slightly) sad when people release non-free versions.)